Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

Looks like you should be all set - did you try pushing the button on the comp?

yea i did i hit the "fn" key plus f2 which its alternate function is to enable wireless and the light will not come on.

This is the only problem i have with ubuntu at all. i can get all the programs i need to install smoothly and everything is there for me. Lol but when it comes to trying to get my wireless to work it seems i am SOL sometimes. Only thing i have needed help on.

Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

Originally Posted by ddom87

yea i did i hit the "fn" key plus f2 which its alternate function is to enable wireless and the light will not come on.

This is the only problem i have with ubuntu at all. i can get all the programs i need to install smoothly and everything is there for me. Lol but when it comes to trying to get my wireless to work it seems i am SOL sometimes. Only thing i have needed help on.

Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

So I finally got it working... except that I didn't do it using Ubuntu I downloaded Linux Mint Bea http://lt.k1011.nutime.de/ which is 98% Ubuntu anyway. Then I proceeded to follow the instructions here: http://lt.k1011.nutime.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=458 . While I realize that these instructions will not work in Ubuntu as they are written, since Ubuntu doesn't have a System->Administration->Windows Wireless Drivers. Perhaps someone with more technical knowledge than I have will be able to figure out why it works and make it work for Ubuntu as well. Also I think prior to following the steps I had done a sudo rmmod bcm43xx, don't know if that'll need to be done as well.

BTW this works simply running from the live cd for me, thus no need to actually install MINT to find out if it'll work for you if you'd like to try Mint.

Re: HOWTO: Broadcom 4318 Wireless Cards

and post the results, please.
obviously, if the light comes on, you don't need to post the results.

it worked .. Thank you very much. I tried that before and it never worked. lol. But i guess something kicked in this time. the light doesnt stay solid but it blinks as it sends packets.. so its good now strength is 100%. lol.

It scanned the network it found it i switched it to connect to eth1 and it went perfectly.